Elizabeth Grigg coins a new phrase.

I went to the .NET DA meeting tonight over on the Microsoft campus to hear Duncan Mackenzie talk about “Coding for fun at MSDN”.

Mackenzie used to be the Content Strategist for the VB Developer Center, and he’s designed several tools to help with the content on the site. He has written two series of articles: Advanced Basics and Coding4Fun. When he first presented the idea of Coding4Fun, his supervisors rejected the idea. However, he felt that it was important for the hobbyist programmer to have useful articles, as well as the business dev, and wrote the first C4F article just in time for EricR to insist that MSDN needed to provide content for hobbyists. “Funny you should say that, we just happen to have…” :-) He showed us some of the various projects he’s worked on in .NET, including his own version of Media Center, with PocketPC-based remote control.

I’ve been looking for a hook to start learning about VB .NET: this topic is exactly what I need, short of being offered money to learn it. :-)

Also, he used to be a Fox dude. You may have seen my earlier post about Fox being plugged on the VB home page: he was the plugger. :-)

A church in Boulder stole cremated remains of aborted fetuses and put them in their own Memorial Wall.

How low can you go?

Thanks-I-think to FilkerTom.